Stock market board game apparatus used with two contrasting dice



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17a/vena r Harry 0. Todd, ZyyM//MM Q Patented Oct. 17, i[975() UNITED S'IfI-S,` PATENT OFFICE l.sriiicrlrArrow@ARD GAME APPARATUS -USED WTI'EH-TWO-C0NTRASTVING DICE l ,Harry 0. Todd, -l )ayton, Ohio, assigner to Parker -Brotl1iers'Inc., Salem, kMass.,` a corporation of Maine Y Application August 16, i346, Serial No.690,`92,0

Thisinvention relates to game-apparatus, and is intended primarily `tofprovide algame simulating Vor pertaining to the purchase and sale of stocks listed upon the Stock Board or panel con- Sttuting an element or part of the game ap- 5 Figtiis aplan view showingthe preferred three paratus. denominations of thegame-money stripsor scrip .The'stock Board or panel is adapted or is so used inplayingthe game; constructed as, upon its removal from the game Figli is applan View of two of thegame-.money box.to begin the game, to be positioned upright disks or checks of higher -denominationthan fthe in view Aof and close to the players who should paper `strips or scrip; be grouped ina row-in front of it. It is marked Fig. Vv'7 vis -a perspective `view of certain dice, or otherwise provided with a series of preferably differentially colored; vertical columns in each of which a. preferably Fig. 8 is anedge view, broken away, of asmall distinctive type of stock islisted. Each of Said part of the mSisockloard or panel, showingithe columns (herein six, for reasons apparent from slitted construction `at the .base thereof, .adapt the ensuing description) has its own distinctive color or other distinguishing indicationV or mark Y ingand each lsuch column fis divided preferably throughout its length Ainto vertically arranged areas ieach vbearing a number notation. Allfof said number notations on the entire Stock Board or panel together constitute various possible readings, `and preferably, asfherein disclosed, all the possible readings of the contrasting dice Vemployed `in playing the game. The game apparatus also includes, in the selected embodiment of the invention, a set-o f Stock cards, a set of Market-Price cards, a set of sheets or slips simulating *Newsesheets or the like and setting forth or containing instructions to Ybe followed when Doubles are rolled, a certain amount of game or scrip money and also disks or checks marked with larger money amounts and distinctively colored if desired.

In order that the principle of the invention may berreadily understood, I have disclosed a `single embodiment thereof inthe accompanying drawings, wherein the distinctive colors are .indicated according tothe chart for draftsmen in the PatentO-lce Rules of Practice.

In said drawings: v Fig. 1 is a front view of the 'Stock IBoard or panel as it appears-when in upright position and also showing or indicating a wall or edge of the box body byV which it is supportedin upright *position; l

Fig. 2 is a plan View of the box body, opened by removal of the cover, and from which box body the StockBoard or panel has been removed,

and therefore showingthe topmost .Stock Vcard in each of six certain compartmentsof the box body, the News Stand, the pile of so-called vDaily 1Buglenewsslips, the game-moneypaper strips or scrip, the disksor Achecks representingthe higher money denominations and certain contrasting dice which are rolled or thrownin playing lthe game;

.icoiaims (omis-135) Fig 3 Vis a plan view 'of two of theiseries of Market-Pricecards';

Fig. -4 is a plan view of two of the' Daily Bugle news slips;

ing it to `be supported in'upright position upon the rear wall or edge of theboxbody, for playing the game; and Y Fig. 9 is a perspective'view ofthegameappaV ratus A'in playing position. Y

Before describing the -elementsof Ythe vgaine apparatus withvreference to the drawings, Iwill ,set .forth the salient features thereof and :the general purpose of the game, which includes the use of special, contrasting dice that .are rolled orthrow'n'byeach-player in turn, this .act deter mining the stock transfers that occur 'throughout the game. The Stock card bearing the number-rolled bythe dice `mustbe Apurchased by the Roller (unless he already Yholds it in his hand), and `he thereby acquires Ythe Ycash dividond printed upon the` Stock card, :which divi- Ydend is, paid-from the Pool.

T he game money is rprovided to :a sufficiently large amount and `in such denominationsas will rmost conveniently permit the playing of the game.

ySuch game money, in the present embodiment ofV the invention, comprises f a .relatively v:.larg'e. number of slips or scrp each markedwitha designa- A -nominationsdwhich, in thepresent embodimentjof "the invention, are $5000 and $10,000., these disks orchecks being preferably distinctivelyl colored. vThe number offplayers is not xedfbutgthe game is preferablyplayedbyzthree, fourorffive l-persons. v.From .the-.PooLtwhich comprises .the

y larger compartments of the-'boxcontaini'ng and in part constitutinga portion or' feature of the game apparatus, lthere isv distributed among the players $10,000fveach, preferablyv made up .ofone "$5000 disk, three $1000 slips, three $500 `slips and ve slips. The object of the game is to be "the first playerto Vacquire $50,000, orsuchplarger very generally been done in games involving dice, Y

but instead are read as a two-digit number, or as a three-digit number if three contrasting dice are employed, as hereinafter explained, as, for example, if the number vappearing uppermost upon the die that is required to be first read is "5 and the number uppermost on the other die is 2, the number read is "52?, but in reading the dice for dollar value the total is read as hundreds (that is, $52.00y in the example given, thus being read as four digits). There are, therefore, thirty-six possible readings of the two dice, namely, 11 through 16, 21 Vthrough 26, 31 through 36, 41 through 46, 51 throughA 56, and 61 through 66, and of such possible readings of the two contrasting dice the numbers 11, 22, 33, 4,4, 55, 66 are the result of rolling Doubles, with novel results, as hereinafter set forth. Without so limiting my invention, I will describe the selected embodiment thereof showing only two dice.

The game apparatus, which is packed in a compartmented box or receptacle having a suitable wholly removable cover, includes a Stock Board or panel which, for the playing of the game after removal from the box body, is supported in upright position in suitable manner. While such AStock Board or panel may, for playing the game, be suitably supported upright otherwise than as herein disclosed, I have, in the present embodiment of the invention, provided the lower edge of the suitably reinforced or strengthened Stock Board or panel structure with vertical slits which are tted by manual manipulation of a player onto the back wall or edge of the box body, thus holding the Stock Board or panel upright. In this or in any other suitable manner the said Stock Board or panel is, in preparation for playing the game, supported at the rear of the open box body and so as to extend upwardly from and in suitable relation to certain transversely arranged compartments of the box that receive the undealt Stock cards.

The said Stock Board or panel, in the disclosed embodiment of the invention, to which my invention is not limited, has six, contrastingly colored or designated, vertical columns respectively pertaining to and listing, in ve of the said areas of each column, six general types of Stocks whichV herein are Retail Stocks, Service and Utility Stocks, Transportation Stocks, Amusement Stocks, Manufacturing Stocks and Blue Chip Stocks. There is also upon the Stock rBoard or panel, in the present embodiment of the invention, a seventh centrally arranged vcolumn which has at a suitable portion thereof rack may be provided upon any suitable part of Vthe front face of the Stock Board or panel, or

elsewhere if desired.

Varranged column is not essential, and the said Each of the said six stock-listing columns is, as above indicated, divided, in this embodiment of the invention, into six substantially square areas, and upon each of such areas of each stock-listing column appears one of the possible described readings of the tWo contrasting dice, such numbers or readings being herein consecutive in each column beginning at the top, as already referred to. Each of the areas in each stock-listing column, excepting the area bearing the number obtained by rolling Doubles, desirably contains some designation or description of stock of the general type included in such column. The area in each column which bears a number obtained by rolling Doubles (that is, 1l, 22, 33, 44, 55 and 66) contains directions, such as Consult Daily Bugle, to be followed by the Roller and in some cases by all players when Doubles are rolled, this adding greatly to the interest and the uncertainty of the game.

The Stock Board or panel, when in upright position, as described, has its six stock-listing columns thus brought into suitable relation with six transversely arranged compartments in the now open box body, and in each of the said six compartments maybe positioned (before Stock cards are distributed, four each, among the players) ve Stock cards which respectively bear the numbers (other than the double numbers) appearing in that stock-listing column, each Vsuch Stock card being coloredl upon at least sone portion or area thereof to correspond with the distinctive color of the stock-listing column to which such Stock card pertains.

All the Stock cards in eachcompartment bear the legend This stock pays the holder a dividend of, followed by thedivided amount, which, in the present embodiment of the invention, is, reading from the left in Fig. l, respectively $500, $1000, $1500, $2000, $2500 and $3000, for the six types of stocks previously referred to in detail.

The game apparatus also includes a set of Instruction slips which, in this embodiment of the invention, number twenty, but which number may be varied as desired. These slips herein simulate new sheets, each being entitled The Daily Bugle, and each of the said slips sets forth some happening such as Rich Uncle Rests in Hotel, Train Derailed, Fire, Heavy Frost Nips Oranges, etc., and each such slip bears instructions pertaining to, and to be followed by one or more of the players in the event that Doubles are rolled. These slips are, prior to playing vthe game, shuffled and are placed in a pile face-down upon that part of the box body bearing the legend News Stand.

In playing the game, one of the players is chosen to act as Treasurer and has charge of all Pool transactions and handles the play money, such Stock cards as are undealt by him in beginning the game, the Market-Price cards and The Daily Bugle slips. All the play money, prior to distribution at the commencement of the play, is kept in the several larger compartments of the box body, which are collectively termed the Pool, and during the progress of the game all play-money not belonging to the players is kept in the Pool.

To play the game, the Stock Board or panel is put in upright position in the manner described or in any'other suitable manner, and four Stock cards are dealt to each player, the entire set of such Stock cards being shuled before dealing, and the undealt Stock cards are put in the six compartments at the foot of the geteste :nan-ner described, and not' by'adding the'nllrri'-V ent market price as shown by thev exposed- MarketlPr'ice card contained in the rack bearingl tl'1e` set ofMarket=Price cards hereinbefore described.

1n' uae eventual; Doubles are roues) which in the present game' frequently results, at least par* tially, inv penalties or disadvantages, instead of being; as in other dice games, an advantage) the eirpo'sedMarket-'Price card in the rack is, by the 're'as'rer,v at once removed' and put at the back of the rack, thus"e'ipsing'v a" new market price on' thenext cardwh'ich new price controls until the next Double isrolled, and which new vmarket price may be 'highei1 o'r lower than the just previously vcontrolling one, thus further adding to the interest of' the game.' The Roller, in the event of rolling Doubles, refers to the Stock Board orpanel and yfollows the instructions appearing thereon for suchDoubles, noting-that f"th'eDoublesv 22`and 66 additional "action is redi'iired,` sometimes" by other players also. For each Doublerolledorthrown, the Roller isvdirected to consult theiDaily' Bugle.: Therefore, the Roller takes' theiinverted top copyk of the Daily Bugle from the News Stand, reads it aloud,

vand then any VVo r a ll players, including himself, to which the instructions apply, follow such instruc tions', which include the vpaying or the re-Y ceiving o f money to or from another player or `players or thelPool, the dollar value beingA one cording to the' preferredrules of the game, in

paying or collecting money, the reading of the dice is made in hundreds as hereinbefore stated. If Doubles are rolled orthrown as apart of the 'feature play, the Market-Price card isv again changed, `but another Daily Bugle is not consulted asa-part of that play.

A Roller, before his turn is reached and before herollsthe two dice, is entitled `to sell one Stock card to the Pool at the then market price. It is, ofcourse, advantageous todo this when themarket price is high. No Stock cards can be bought except as the Roller is required to do; .'so or in the event the vdirections of the Daily Bugle require buying. According to the preferred rules of the game, it is advantageous to acquire several Stock cards of the same color Yfor if the number' borne by any 'oneof such causing df't die stack; ea'afor t Ifi aridwheal player finds. haveV suiilcient cash" 15opay what l1" o is permitted to sell bac'ktoy the-Poo his' stocks as" necessaryfasja l to pay hisldebtsginufuu, this bemgthegoniy* Caslon' during the" gaine"vvherrmoreAv th lonev Stock card can be cashed in at cnet a player .be vur'iablet'o payhisldeb s ingjhis available 4cashover" vto'- the Treasu ry and selling back toffthePool all of` his stock,- sc' player is bankrupt: andV is" obliged to'` retir' froml thefgame.

Having thus described without specific "ii-4 encey to' tue-drawings the elements 01- in'strhe talities thatV areY used in-playing thei discil embodirnentl of the game" Vultilille ni nn ture shown lin the'Y drawings, but-to: which-structure Amy invention is'k not lirnited.Y I

The body portion o f tlebowzemw 'ereinthegain'e apparatus is pack'agedand'iwhid is at :xtua'lly usedin` playingnthe" gaineV of its apparatus, is-representedat v 9, It is provided wit-bla remo` herein shown. Asthe gameisp'acl'r or` distribution the' StockjBoard or panelu iiat'wi's'e` in the bogoverY the compart'm` `-tf's thereof. Said StockjBoardor-pan isfs'ho f A front 'ele'vatiorrir'rjllig V in perspectiv Fig.l 9, and a ksmall portion of'one'o'f'thebot o'n corners thereof is'shown'in? Figi The said Stock Boardjior panel, wlni'cl'ifir'rV itsentirety7`VV is indicated at 2", is `composed of asheet ofsltable stiff material, such as cardboard, wood plastic, metal or the like', andl in -order'to reinforce'and strengthen the sam e; it is* in the presen enr"- bodiment of the invention provided`- along :the lateral or sideedgesw twowoodenor other vstrips andv :along the top" and*near4 the bottom with'tran'sverse strips,` to all of which tieS 4"ck BoardE or'y panel` is secured 'in any' suitable In n*- nenas by small;nails,thus making"arigi stru ture.n AA portion of `oi'ie'jo'f the "e lrights vof the S to`ck Boardor pan is indicated at'3 in Fig. 8, whereinthe ex'jre'ni'elower edge of such strip 3 isrepres'ented asvhaving afle wisejextendingslotfor kerf lli- It willfbe u 'steed tiratbetrr or said edge fstr'ips'" a are videdwith slots or kerfs 1'4""and that-in preparing tovplaywthe one cl'ftheV players takes Qui; from thefbejxV` body' -l tirestecic Board f o r panel 2"and; holdin'g'it upright; pushes it downward over therear dgeor wall-"Efof'thejbox body, asindicated inf Fig. 8,' with theV4 Stock Board orfpanel f acingfth'e playersjthel body lthus being diret-'uy affronter the stdck @are o'r'panel and between thel same and the'seye'ral l 4'lihejsix vertical vstocl2-listing columns `"aeindicated .at-6, 1, 8,9, Ill, II, reading from-th eft in Fig-.21, and betweentm columns s` ands isla central column |2 "ha`vi'ng any suitable'rading matter'thereon, such as the name of the gaine and the statementthat therst $50,000 ywinstne gamefand also having secured toits" front'fa'c'e 75 a'rack or supporting-"member- I2a`-1of woodiol' any other suitable material, and which is of sumcient depth and shape to receive therein the entire set of Market-Price cards, two of which are shown inV their entirety at I3, I4 in Fig. 3. The front one of the set of Market-Price cards held in the rack is shown at I5 in Fig. 1, wherein appears the notation Market Price $1000 displayed above the top of the rack I2a.

The columns 6 to II are herein differentiated from. eachother by color, the color designations indicated by the chart for draftsmen in the Patent` Oiiice Rules of Practice being employed. These colors reading from the left in Fig. 1 are respectively, red, yellow, green, brown, orange and blue, with the exception that the areas of these columns whereon appear the Double numbers 11, 22, 33, 44, 55 and 66 are white. At the top of the columns 6 to II are listed the type of stocks, which are themselves respectively indicated in five areas of each of the columns. Preferablyfbut not necessarily, in addition to the name of the stock, such, for example, as Furniture Store in column 6, appears a small picture of furniture, and this manner of portraying all the stocks is followed, in this embodiment of the invention, throughout all the columns 6 to I I.

As already stated, in the disclosed embodiment of the invention, each of the six areas of each stock-listing column bears one of the possible numbers resulting from the throwing or rolling of the two contrastingly colored or otherwise differentiated dice indicated in Fig. '7, wh-erein a red die is represented at I6 and a white die at Il.

The numerals appearing in the stock-listing Vcolumn 6 result, of course, from the six rollings of the two contrasting dice where the results or readings are successively, one by the red die and one by the white die, one by the red die and two by the white die, one by the red die and three by the white die, one by the red die and four by the white die, one by the red die and five by the white die, and one by the red die and six by the white die.

In thesecond column the rollings by the red die are always two, while the rollings of the white die are the same as in the rst column, and so on throughout the six columns.

In each colum'n there is, in the disclosed embodiment of the invention, one area wherein the rolling of Doubles is indicated, such an area being the uppermost in the left-hand column 6. Thereon appears the numeral I I and underneath the legend Consult Daily Bugle, the same legend appearing in the Double areas 33, 44, 55of columns 8, 9 and I0. In the Double areas of columns 'I and II, in addition to the instructions Consult Daily Bugle appear respectively, Collect $5000 from the Pool and Collect $3000 from the Pool. While any suitable number of Market-Price cards may be employed, there are twenty-one in the set in the disclosed4 embodiment of theY invention.

The box body I is represented in its open playing condition in Figs. 2 and 9, but no. part of the Stock Board or panel is shown in Fig. 2. At the rear portion of the box body I (that is, next to the Stock Board or panel when the latter is upright in playing position) are provid-ed six compartments I8 Yto 23 extending transversely across the lower ends of saidcolumns and within which are. respectively shown certain of the Stock cards at 24 to 29. There are thirty of these Stock cards,

vbeing six less in number than the total of the pertaining to each of thesix vertical columns on the Stock Boardor panel, and the numbers 'appearing upon the Stock cards are respectively the same as the numbers other than Doubles appearing in each column. g

Herein such Stock card bears a colorindication which is the same as thatof the column to whichv theStock card pertains, and in the dis-l closed' embodiment of the invention the coloring upon each Stock card appears as a circle within which the stock number appears. EachA Stock card, as already stated, contains the legend This stock pays the holder a dividend of, and therebelow appears in dollars the amount'of the dividend ranging from $500 to $3000. In the disclosed embodiment of the invention the value of the stock dividend is successively greater reading from left to right, but my invention is not limited to such arrangement.

The box body I also contains at the front thereof, as .shown in Figs. 2 and 9, four transversely-arranged larger compartments 30 to 33 together termed the POOL andtherein, in the compartment 30 may be placed the disks or checks' 34, in the compartment 3| the slips termed The Daily Bugle, in the compartment` 32 the 'gamef money slips or scrip, and in the compartment 33 the dice I6, I'I. Between the two sets `of come partments is a long space receiving a card-board structure 35 that may be folded like a box cover to provide downwardly extending supporting edges, and which bears the legend News Stand. Upon this news stand is placed, inverted and shuffled, the set of Daily Bugles.

In Fig. 4 I have shown two of The Daily Bugle news-slips at 36, 31. The news announcements upon these slips diier among'themselves and the instructions appearing at the lower left-hand corner of the slips also differ among themselves, thus adding to the interest ofthe game and increasing the uncertainties thereof. In order to make a complete disclosure of Such news announcements and instructions upon the twenty Daily Bugle news-slips without illustrating them all in detail in the drawings, I here set forth in their entirety all the instructions and all news items upon such twenty news-slips.

Instructions Rich Uncle Says:

(l) Each player must buy one more Business Boom! Stocks stock from Pool at present yclimb new heights! market price. (Roller of dice has first choice) (2) Each player rolls both dice to Income Taxes Due. Each determine how much tax he, player pays pool. individually, must pay,

Player at your left rolls rst.

(3) Each player, in turn, rolls the Aunt Effie Visiting Reladice to determine how much tives. Traveling by hel money he, individually, must icopter. All players help pay to the pool as his share of pay her expenses.

Aunt Eflie's expenses. Player to your left rolls first.

(4) Holder of dice pays $500 cash to Market Crash! Somebody every other player. must pay! (5) Each player rolls the dice and Oil Discovered! Owner of pays the amount rolled to the Oil Well No. 0l collects a owner of the Oil Well. fee from each player.

() Holders of Blue Chip Stocks Storm Ties Up Transporpay Pool for each Blue Chip tation. How many stock owned. The amount of Blue Chip stocks do money to ne paid is deter you own? 'mined by rolling both dice. Y

(7) Owner of farm rolls both dice to Drought! Crops Ruined! determine amount of cash he Owner of Farm No. 62 collects from Pool. If [arm collects damages from not owned play passes. Pool.

(8) Owner of diamond stock #63, Shortage OI Diamonds! collects .fronithe PooLdouble Ownerof Stock No. 63 the dividend value of the" ,cashes in! stock, which is $3,000. (lf not owned, then buy, it-but I do not collect the $3,000.)

yInstructions `Rich Uncle Says:

(9) Pay Pool $500vcash V rPlayer `Failed To Report Stock rlransactions Cor- 5 -rect1y. `Einw-$500.

(10) Each playerwin turn rolls the Holder/Ol Dice Announces .diceto determine how much Surprise Marriage. money he,-individually,must Players chip rin for .contribute l .to the player'4V who Wedding present.

made. the happyannouncement. -Player to your -left rolls first. f 10 (1l) Owner must sell Orange Heavy Frost Nips Oranges. Grove #64 to player athis Owner of Stock No. 64 left for current marketprice. l nipped (12) Each player .in turn rolls the Mrs. Sparkplug, the neighdice .to vdetermine how much borhood .go-getter is co1- money he, individually, mustA lectingxfunds for another pay 'Mrs. Sparkplug. 'The `Community Project. 15 first lady to the readers right; '.lHave your f'donations passes a hat, collects Y.the ready.,folks. money and keeps it as'her own. y g

(13)- All other players.roll.the .dice You have .been awarded Y and pay youthe amount rolled. the Grand Prize as Best (By the V.way you,may, `if you "Story Teller at Convenlike, tell the story .that .won ,tion of Traveling Sales- 20 Vthe prize.) men. (14) Each player invzturn, rollslthe Aunt EflleOomes to Dindice Yto determine .how much ner. Stays s all winter. money hepindividually, mustv All players -help-'to pay pay tothe Pool toward Aunties her. expenses. expenses. Playertoyourleft y rolls rst. 25 (15)` AEach player, in turn, rolls thev Mayonof'Oity needs anew vdice to determine how much car. Selects the best l money he, individually, must automobile money can pay to the Poolas hisccontri-Y buy. v Taxpayers foot ,bution Y the bill.

L(16) Owner of railroad stock #34 TrainDeralledl Owner of rolls the dice.Y and fpays .fPooL Stock No. 34 out ofvluek! Y If not owned-buy at 3() market price, butdo lnot pay damages. ,'(17) Holder of 'dicereeeives one stock Market Rise. Everybody of'his choice,.free,' ironLPool. ,happyl If Vnone ingPool-play passes. (18) Owner returns Stockcard '#12 Fire! Furniture Store No.

',to the lool. (If.not:owned- 12 is destroyed. 35 `play passes.)

The following Vnews-slips -do not-'contain the words Rich Uncle says," but read as fiollows:

'Report says: 40

(19) .First player to left ofroller rolls Rich VVUncle Arrested for dice `and pays the money to Speeding! Bailed out by e Po a Friend.

(20) :Each player, in-turn, rolls the -Ricl1lUneleRests In Hotel. dice to determinehow much Engages entire iloorl a moneyhe, individually, must Players .donate expenses. payto the-Pool toward Uncles expenses. Player to your left rollsfirst.

the invention there are Aninety-three, made 11154455 jof :twenty-'three of the denomination of $1000,

`thirty-.one of the `denomination of4 $500 and thirty-nine `of the denomination of `$100. This number may be varied as desired. For convenience, as for use in handling money of higheriffoO denominations than $1000, there are provided the disks or 4checks 3ft, herein twenty-nine in number and shown in compartment 30 of the Pool, Fig. 2. Iheir vnumber and denomination maybe varied as desired. Herein, all but vello bear the denomination$5000,the -remainderbearing the denomination $10,000, and the two -denominations Vmay be' contrastingly colored, as, for example, red andorange.

vI-lerein I have shown two dice consisting' offo two cubes each marked with spots o-r numbers, one tosix, and one or 'both of said `two dice 'herein shown is orare so marked .orldesignated by color or otherwise as to .indicate `a rprede terrnined order in which said two .dice shall fbe'read as 212.775

complete number composed of two digits. Such `dice might be used vin playing other games ythan `that herein disclosed. Such contrasting dice peculiarly combine with thek Stock Board or Ypanel in the playing of the hereindisclosed game.

Whilev in the selected embodiment of .my invention I have shown only two contrasting'dice and have specifically described a game wherein two contrasting dice cooperate with other features of the game, it is to beV understood/.that my invention linits broadest aspect is not'limited to `the .use ,therein of two contrasting diceonly. `I mam-for example, use three or other plurality of contrasting dice. If `I use threecontrasting dice, they -are contrastingly marked to Yindicate the predetermined order in which they areto be vpredeterminedly read, and in employing .three dice they are colored red, white and` blue respectively and areread in thatorder-pre'determinedly. This .predetermined order.or..sequence ofreading is readily remembered .because `that is the order in which the colorsof theUnitedv upon the StockBoard lor panelvWould-eonsist in each case of three digits. Thatfis, the numbers upon the Stock Board or panel Awould agree in the numberV of l,digits .thereon -with .the number of dice, and-ashereinbeorestated, .in reading the dice for ydollar value, :the -total .is lread as hundreds.

. While siX-faced'or cubical dice are shown, it isr to be understood: that the dice or .dice-like elements may have other number of aCesthansiX, and that in any-event thenumberof spots on A-the vseveral faces needV not actually bein sequence, vas there might, .for example, .be a blank face, or the same numberv of fspots ornumbersmay appear on twofaces, and even-in-theeventof using cubes, Ythe spots or` numbers-neednotbe one to six, as other numbers .maylbe `used.

-Within the scope -of my invention, the reading of the digits indicated .by the .throwing of the dice maybe directly applied to `thenumbered Stock lcards in the Vseveral compartments 2d to 29, instead 'of to the'digitsupon-thefStock Board vorpanel, and thisfmay be done-.either incolla-bvoration with `thestock B-oardi or panel, or without reference thereto, in Which latter case the Stock Board or ypanel mightnot be used.

Regarding the `vso-called News .Sheets herein termed TheDaily-Bugle, they fconstitute .one embodiment of a feature that .'I lrefer to as an additional medium or element or directive-:notationbearing device, v:not used continuously. -:bu-t on special circumstances arising, --as :by the throwing e of Doubles, to echange r:and direct the immediate currentLor-course of play-:fin the-carrying out `of the indicated directive notation on said rnedium or element. This I .believe to be broadly new and VI claim such matter broadly.

Having thus -described one illustrative .embodiment of theinvention, it is to be understood that Valthough specificY terms are employed, they are used in a generic and ydescriptive-sense and not for purposes pf limitation, Vthe scope of the invention being set forth -in the Afollowing claims.

rI claim:

1. In a game apparatus, aStock Market Board having va series of columns, each having its own "distinctive marking, and each column being divided into a number of areas, a plurality of which areas bears .a diierent number notation consist- `ing of two digits, .and .all the number notations on such areas of the Stock Market Board constituting two-digit readings of a pair of dice employed in playing the game, the faces of each of which dice respectively bear different singledigit number indications, said dice each carrying the same single-digit number indications as the other.

2. In a game apparatus a Stock Market Board having a series of six columnsf'ieach having its own distinctive marking and each column being divided into six areas, each of which areas bears a different two-digit number notation, and all of which number notations on the entire Stock Market Board together constitute all the possible two-digit readings of two cubical dice ernployed in playing the game, the faces of each of said cubical dice bearing different single-digit number indications, such pair of two cubical dice being differentiated from each other, but

bearing upon their respective faces the same single-digit number indications.

3. In a game apparatus a Stock Market Board having a series of six columns each having its own distinctive marking and each column being divided into six areas, each of which areas bears a number notation differing from the number notation on each of the other areas, and all of which number notations on the entire Stock Market Board together constitute all the possible two-digit readings of the two cubical dice employed in playing the game, the faces of each of which two dice respectively bear different singledigit number indications, said two dice each carrying the same single-digit number indications as the other.

4. In a game apparatus, a Stock Market Board having means to support it in upright position in view of the fplayers, said Stock Market Board having a series of columns each having its own distinctive marking and a plurality of said columns being divided into a plurality of areas, at least one of the areas of each of a plurality of said columns bearing a two-digit number notation, which two-digit number notations each constitutes a two-digit reading of two dice employed in playing the game, the faces of each of said two dice bearing different single-digit number indications, said two dice each carrying the same single-digit number indications as the other. Y

5. A game apparatus in accordance with claim 1, wherein a series of areas of each of the columns bear indicia pertaining respectively to a set of Stock Market Cards that bear corresponding indicia.

6. In a game apparatus a Stock Market Board having a series of six vertical columns each having its own distinctive color and each column being divided into six areas vertically arranged and each of which areas bears a two-digit number notation differing from the number notations in each of the other areas, and all of which number notations on the entire Stock Market Board together constitute all the possible two-digit readings of two cubical dice employed in playing the game, said two dice each carrying the same single-digit number indications as the other, each of said six columns containing in a series of areas thereof indicia pertaining to the same general type or class of stocks.

'7. In a game apparatus a Stock Market Board having a series of six vertical columns each having its own distinctive color and each column being divided into six areas vertically arranged and each of which areas bears a two-digit numl2 ber notation differing from the number notations in each of the other areas, and all of which number notations on the entire Stock Market Board together constitute all the possible readings of two cubical dice employed in playing the game, the faces of each of which two dice respectively bear different single-digit number indications, said two dice each carrying the same single-digit number indications as the other, each of said six columns containing in five areas thereof indicia pertaining to the same general type or class of stocks, the sixth area of each of said columns bearing a two-digit number notation constituting a possible reading of said two dice ywhen they are rolled doubles 8. In a game apparatus a Stock Market Board having a series of six vertical columns each having its own distinctive color and each column being divided into six areas vertically arranged and each of which areas bears a two-digit number notation differing from the number notations in each of the other areas, and all of which number notations on the entire Stock Market Board together constitute all the possible twodigit readings of two cubical dice employed in playing the game, the faces of each of which two dice respectively bear different single-digit number indications, said two dice each carrying the same single-digit number indications as the other, each of said six columns containing in five areas thereof indicia pertaining to the same general type or class of stocks, the sixth area of each of said columns bearing a two-digit number notation constituting a possible reading of said two dice when they are rolled doubles, and each said sixth area also bearing instructions for the player or players consequent upon rolling doubles by said two dice.

9. In a game apparatus a Stock Market Board having a series of six vertical columns each having its own distinctive color and each column being divided into six areas vertically arranged and each of which areas bears two-digit number notations differing from the number notations in each of the other areas, and all of which number notations on the entire Stock Market Board together constitute all the possible two-digit readings of two cubical dice employed in playing the game, the faces of each of which two dice respectively bear different single-digit number indications, said two dice each carrying the same single-digit number notations as the other, each of said six columns'containing in a series of areas thereof indicia pertaining to the same general type or class of stocks, said Stock Market Board having a seventh vertically arranged column bearing data pertaining to the use of the Stock Market Board as a game apparatus.

10. In a game apparatus a Stock Market Board having a series of six vertical columns each having its own -distinctive color and each column being divided into six areas vertically arranged and each of which areas bears two-digit notations differing from the number notations in each of the other areas, and all of which number notations on the entire 'Stock Market Board together constitute all the possible two-digit readings of two cubical dice employed in playing the game, the faces of each of which dice respectively bear different single-digit number notations, each of said columns containing in a series of areas thereof indicia pertaining to the same general type or class of stocks listed upon a number of groups of stock cards that bear corresponding indicia, Esaid two dice each'carrying the same single-digit number indications as the other i 'Y 11./ A game apparatus compi-iisinga Stock vMarket Board receivable atwise in a `container for transportation and having `upwardly Aextendposition, such container having an upright wall terminating at the top in a freeedgeto engage the said slit-like formations in the bottom edge of the Stock Market Board, said Stock Market Board having stock data pertaining to the game upon the face thereof mostreadily readable with the Stock Market Board in upright position, said Stock Market Board having a series of columns, which are upright when said Stock Market Board is so supported upright upon an upright wall of such container, each of said columns being divided into a number of areas, a plurality of said areas bearing diierent number notations consisting of two digits and all the number notations of such areas of the Stock Market Board constituting two-digit readings of a pair of dice employed in playing the game, the faces of each of which two dice respectively bear different single-digit number indications, said two dice each carrying the same single-digit number indications as the other one of said two dice.

12. A game apparatus comprising a Stock Market Board receivable atwise in a container for transportation and having upwardly extending slit-like formations in the bottom edge thereof receivable upon an upright wall of such container so as to be thereby supported in upright position for more easy reading in play, such container having an upright wall terminating at the top in a free edge to engage the said slit-like formations in the bottom edge of the StockzMarket Board, said Stock Market Board having a series of columns which are vertically disposed when the Stock Market Board is so supported upright upon a wall of such container, each of said columns having its own distinctive marking and stock designation relating to groups of Stock Market Cards that pertains, because of indicia thereon, to the respective columns of the Stock Market Board, and which Stock Market Cards each has thereon a stock dividend nota-V tion respecting the stock .to which such Stock Market Card and the corresponding Stock Market Board column pertain.

13. A game apparatus comprising a Stock Market Board receivable flatwise in a container for transportation and having upwardly extending slit-like formations in the bottom edge thereof receivable upon an upright wall of such container 'so as to be thereby supported in upright position for more easy reading in play, such container having an upright wall terminating at the top in a free edge to engage the said slit-like formations in the bottom edge of the Stock Market Board, said Stock Market Board having a series of columns which are vertically disposedy when the Stock Market Board is supported upright upon a wall of such container, each of said columns having its own distinctive marking and stock designation relating to groups of Stock Market Cards that pertain, because of indicia thereon, to the respective columns of the Stock Market Board, and which Stock Market Cards each has thereon a stock dividend notation respecting the Stock to which such Stock Market Card and the corresponding Stock Market Board column pertains, each of said columns of the i ilo Y as the other one of saicldice,Y4 jl\/. [varl et vCards each havingfa wo-d `15;'14 Stock Market rBo'arw-being divided intosix areas, each area having a two-digit number that is one of the -possible two-digit readings: of twocubical dice when rolled, the faces off'eah of wh'chtwo cubical dice respectively Ybear different singledigit `number indications, saidtvS/,o dice/'eacl-carrying vthe same single-digit.y number indications which is the same as one of 'vlhettwo-d itnurnbers appearing on the areas ,of the c lumznlto which such groupof Stock vMarket Cards and the corresponding Stock Market Board column pertain, because of said indicia thereon.

14. A game apparatus rcomprising a playing board marked with six rows, each divided into a series of at least six areas, six areas of one row bearing the numbers 11 to 16 respectively, six areas of another row bearing the numbers 21 to 26, six areas of another row bearing the numbers 31 to 36, six areas of another row bearing the numbers 41 to 46, six areas of another row bearing the numbers 51 to 56, and six areas of the sixth row bearing the numbers 61 to 66, the said numbers on the playing board in each instance being a two-digit number obtained by the throwing of two contrasting cubical dice, the faces of each of which respectively bear different singleunit indications, said two dice each carrying the same single-unit number indications as the other one of said two dice.

15. In a game apparatus, a Stock Market Board having upon its face six contrastinglydesignated, parallel columns standing vertically when the said. Stock Market Board is positioned upright for play, each of said lcolumns being divided transversely into six substantially equal areas one above another, the said six areas of each of the six columns bearing indicia, the areas of one of said columns vrespectively bearing numbers 11 to 16, the areas ofY another column respectively bearing numbers 21'to 26, the areas of another column respectively bearing numbers '31 to 36, the areas of another column respecrections to be followed when such doubles are thrown.

HARRY O. TODD'.

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